Private Art Sales With a Discrete AML Solution
Art collectors do not wait around for paperwork. KYC Protect screens your clients in under three minutes, replaces hours of manual administration, and secures your business so you can focus on private sales, advising collectors, and buying unique pieces for your collection.
Navigate dealer AML risk with absolute certainty.
The momentum of a private sale rarely starts as a compliance event. It starts with a dealer standing in front of a work they know well, a collector enthusiastically listening, or a trusted advisor sharing details with a client who prefers privacy. Your team is managing sales, consignments and client relationships. Then the transaction crosses the €10,000 threshold, a buyer acquires multiple works, requests split invoices, and pays from a foreign corporate account.
Relieving compliance friction for global art dealers.
That is the exact moment manual compliance risks a lost sale. A PDF form cannot consolidate complex multi-party transactions in real time, a buyer, ultimate beneficiary, payer, trust entity, advisor, consignor, and shipping recipient. KYC Protect gives art dealers and consultants a live compliance layer that understands discreet client onboarding, multi-dealer structures, reliance certificates, corporate KYB, private placement verification, and final asset release.
Does your art business comply with EU regulations? Please download our free 5-step compliance guide to ensure your business follows EU anti-money laundering regulations.
The KYCProtect Dealer Operation System
Seamless automated onboarding designed for high-value transactions, private art advisors, and international galleries. Built on enterprise-grade security infrastructure, so you and your clients can transact with complete confidence.
Identity & Structure Verification
Automated Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Know Your Customer (KYC), and Know Your Business (KYB) mapping for both private individuals and complex corporate structures.
Advanced Biometrics & Provenance
Secure biometric verification and precise source of funds checks explicitly tailored for high-value art transactions.
Global Risk Screening
Real-time scanning across international sanctions lists, PEP databases, adverse media tracking, and Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) registries.
Audit-Ready Control
Immediate compliance sign-off logs and centralised records management designed to confidently satisfy supervisory reviews.
Perspectives from independent advisories.
Case study: How boutique brokerages and art dealers maintain deal momentum while securing high-value secondary market placements.
"With KYCProtect, our AML files follow the transaction through the buyer, advisor, payer, consignor, and release recipient before the artwork ever leaves our care. We now have far more time to focus on the client relationship and the quality of the deal."
— Independent Art Consultant & Broker | Elite Secondary Market Placement
Everything Starts by Sending a Remote, Secure Link
No matter who your buyer is, where they are located, or how they choose to pay, you will never have to chase a collector for confidential paperwork or risk their privacy over an insecure email.
From private individuals and family foundations to complex trusts, corporate entities, and multi-layered partnerships, the entire workflow is frictionless. You simply generate and share a secure, single-use link. KYC Protect's intelligent, intuitive forms gracefully guide your client through the verification process, capturing the precise, audit-ready data you need on the very first attempt.
Art Dealer
KYCProtect Dashboard
Secure link generated
Collector
Anywhere in the world
How to Get Started with Dealer Compliance
Deploy KYC Protect across your office, viewing rooms, art fair booths, and private advisory workflow without disrupting client introductions.
Policy
Configure your custom AML Risk Assessment parameters and threshold rules directly within your centralized dashboard.
Training
Meet your AML training obligations with our trusted partner Finanslicenser. A professional training programme specifically designed for galleries and art market participants.
Read more →Verify
Start verifying Customer Due Diligence on transactions of €10,000 or more by sending a secure link. The KYCProtect system discreetly guides your collector, trust, family office, or corporate buyer through the verification process.
Start today →Secure
Monitor your audit-ready compliance documentation from a single dashboard. Screen for global sanctions issues in real time, maintain your required legal records, and confirm that works are only released once the transaction is cleared.
Choose Your Dealer Plan
Start verifying private-sale clients in minutes — pick the plan that fits your advisory and sign up to go live today.
For Growing Art & Design galleries
- Everything in Basic
- Entity KYC (Business verification)
- Adverse Media Screening
- Internal AML Audit Log
- Secure Client Portal Link
- Audit-Ready PDF Reports
- Up to 3 Team Members
We Handle the Compliance, You Handle the Deal
Maintain enterprise-grade AML infrastructure and seamless onboarding automation, giving your existing team powerful compliance tools without adding expensive overhead.
Never Lose Momentum
Protect every transaction with instant entity verification, ensuring high-value deals continue smoothly without bureaucratic delays.
Automate Globally
Let automated screenings cross-reference international sanctions and beneficial ownership data silently in the background while your team keeps the client conversation moving.
Protect Asset Revenue
Reduce client onboarding friction with discreet compliance forms that help premium collectors complete the transaction securely and effortlessly.
Mapping the hidden vulnerabilities of a private art transaction.
Automated AML Risk Assessment Matrix for Private Art Dealers and Consultants
| Dealer Transaction Field | Why It Matters | KYC Protect Action |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction Type | Private treaties, secondary brokering, advisory mandates, and fair sales alter risk exposure | Custom channel risk scoring |
| Collector Identity | Direct client checks are required when transactions reach the regulatory threshold | Fast-tracked KYC & verification |
| Intermediary/Advisor | Representatives can layer the transaction and obscure the true acting party | Authority-to-act verification |
| Corporate Vehicles | Holding companies, LLCs, trusts, and offshore entities can hide ultimate buyers | KYB & interactive UBO graph |
| Multi-Work Purchases | Staged invoices or multiple acquisitions can create linked transaction risk | Multi-work value accumulation tracking |
| Consignor Profile | Seller proceeds must be reviewed to prevent secondary market laundering | Connected two-sided seller review |
| Asset Release Gate | Releasing high-value works before clearance creates avoidable regulatory risk | Automated secure hold/release |
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Client abandonment rate
<2%
False positive rate
Eliminating Bottlenecks and False Matches in Dealer Environments
KYC Protect keeps client onboarding friction exceptionally low, with less than 4% client abandonment, and maintains database screening precision with less than a 2% false positive rate. For elite advisories operating under tight allocation deadlines, that is the difference between smooth deal closure and lost client trust.
Mapping Art Dealer Participant Compliance to Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, FATF, and Global Frameworks
Art dealers and consultants operate as core Art Market Participants (AMP) and handle complex multi-party risk positions linking consignors, hidden principals, advisors, payers, and cross-border destinations. Our complete AML guide covers every obligation your business needs to meet.
KYC Protect streamlines these obligations into an integrated due diligence environment: private client KYC, advisor authority validation, corporate KYB, consignor verification, multi-work invoice aggregation, PEP/sanctions checks, and secure asset release gates.
